. The Virginia springs : comprising an account of all the principal mineral springs of Virginia, with remarks on the nature and medical applicability of each . is forthe administration of mineral waters, I remark, that wehave a new and valuable light in this particular case, notalways accessible to new and untried waters. Betweenthe analysis of this water, and the alum waters of Bathand Rockbridge, whose reputation and adaptations arenow pretty well established, there is a similarity in sev-eral respects, so striking as to induce the belief that theyare suited to the same general range of dise
. The Virginia springs : comprising an account of all the principal mineral springs of Virginia, with remarks on the nature and medical applicability of each . is forthe administration of mineral waters, I remark, that wehave a new and valuable light in this particular case, notalways accessible to new and untried waters. Betweenthe analysis of this water, and the alum waters of Bathand Rockbridge, whose reputation and adaptations arenow pretty well established, there is a similarity in sev-eral respects, so striking as to induce the belief that theyare suited to the same general range of disease. The intelligent physician at all acquainted with thepeculiar action of the alum waters, and looking to theleading indications afforded by the analysis of this, willnot fail to perceive that it is pointed out as a valuableremedy in a large circle of cases that require an alterativetonic treatment. It will probably be found valuable inthe various forms of Salt Rheum, as such waters inva-riably are; while its good cifects in Chlorosis, and otherfemale affections, unattended with febrile action, may belooked to, we would think, with decided ?^ CHAPTER XXVII, HUGUENOT SPRINGS This watering place is in Powhatan County, aboutseventeen miles above Richmond. It is situated nearthe centre of a tract of land granted by the BritishCrown to a body of Protestant refugees driven fromFrance by the repeal of the edict of Nantes in 1685,who came to our shores near the close of that centuryand settled in Powhatan and Chesterfield. From thiscircumstance, which cannot be without interest to abrave and free people, strenuous upholders of the rightsof conscience as the Americans liave always been, thename of these Springs was taken when it was deter-mined to establish them as a watering place. Their situation is more than ordinarily striking. Onapproaching the place from the north, along a broad andlevel road, the hotel emerges to view across a smoothgreen lawn, bounded on each side
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